 Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to analyse the methods and instruments of funding and taxation in the waste disposal sector in countries with different levels of economic development, budget decentralisation, population density and cultural traditions. The paper covers the issues of industrial waste disposal and international practice in addressing this problem. The condition, problems and ways of waste disposal are discussed, with a focus on the role of the state and tax mechanisms in different countries. Based on an expert survey, an optimum strategy is proposed to bring down waste in industrial production by implementing new technology. The strategy is designed to prevent and minimise waste generation, to reuse and recycle waste, recover or dispose of waste materials, treat and destruct waste.

The widespread use of reagent coagulation in the technology of purification of natural and waste waters is due to the complexity of the chemical composition and phase-dispersed state of the aqua systems of these waters, on the one hand, and the multifactorial action of coagulants on them, on the other. The mechanisms of interaction between coagulants and pollutants of wastewater which are in different phase-dispersed states include the physicochemical phenomena of coagulation, heterocoagulation, adagulation and sorption. The physicochemical concept “coagulation” reflects only one mechanism of coagulants’ action on pollutants. This leads to the appearing of the problem in terminological description of the physicochemical processes’ combined action when adding coagulants to the water being cleaned. The purpose of the study is to justify the use of universal indicators characterizing the multifactorial nature of the coagulation process, its formalization and quantitative assessment. The solution of the problem is to use the concept of “coasorption”, which determines the multifactorial nature of the interaction between coagulants and pollutants, and to use the technological indicator “specific coasorption”, which establishes a quantitative relationship between the pollutants’ indicators and the dose of coagulant. The test coagulation’s results of two different types of synthetic dyes’ solutions using aluminum salts reflect the difference in the mechanisms of their interaction with the coagulant. The formula for coasorption isotherm can be used to determine the required doses of reagents for coagulation of water basing on the initial and residual content of pollutants in the purified waters.

The use of flotation methods for wastewater treatment is due to their advantages in comparison with other methods of gravity separation, for example, sedimentation. The advantages of flotation water treatment methods include the high speed of the separation process, the ability to extract impurities that are close in density to water, environmental friendliness. Flotation methods are based on adsorptive bubble separation processes. Accordingly, the performance of a particular flotator directly depends on the conditions for the implementation of these processes in a particular flotation cell. The aim of the research was to study the relationship between the dispersed gas phase (DGP) and the ratio of the geometric dimensions of the flotation cells based on the proposed shape indicator of the flotation cell. Studies performed on the experimental model of the flotator have established a significant influence of theshape indicator of the flotation cell on such important indicators of the adsorptive bubble separation processes as gas-filling and the DGP floating speed. The evaluation of different forms of flotation cells, in relation to the properties of extracted bubble-particle complexes is given.

The oil-fields development and operation can be associated with high water consumption and waste water emission. Most of the pollutants come from drilling and formation waters. At the same time, a significant proportion of solid dispersed pollutants is accounted for drilling waste water. Formation waters are the main source of oil contaminants. The technological processes of oil-field waste water treatment are based on gravity separation. In the context of increasing the environmental requirements for production activities, especially in the regions with low average annual temperatures and, accordingly, slow processes of ecosystems’ self-cleaning, the problem of environment reliable protection arises. Gravity separation methods cannot provide the required quality of waste water treatment. Modern achievements in the field of baromembrane technologies and high salinity of waste water make it most effective and expedient to use membrane and electrochemical methods of waste water treatment.